Bob Kolasky, an official at the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said the supply chain security assessment of DHS is slated for a White House review and approval this week, FCW reported Thursday.Â
Kolasky, head of CISA’s National Risk Management Center, said during a public briefing Thursday that the assessment creates a new taxonomy of information and communications technology supply chain risks and classifies the supply chain into five elements and 100 sub-elements.Â
“I think it will help through the regulatory process the rulemaking process…to give focus in areas where we think there’s likely to be higher risk,†he told the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board.
Kolasky said the assessment, which was mandated by an executive order signed in May, is one of the three goals the ICT supply chain task force aims to implement this year. The other two goals are creating an inventory of supply chain processes and activities across the federal ICT sector and establishing working groups to identify supply chain-related problems.
